With the 2019 Canada Winter Games just days away, a trio of exceptional Nova Scotia athletes will compete at the games together.

Siblings Jordan, Justin and Vanessa Stephens are on the wheelchair basketball team. Jordan has cerebral palsy and needs a wheelchair, but his brother and sister are both able-bodied. This will be the first time all three will play together.

“It’s quite an experience because I’m in a chair and I get to play with my brother and sister at the same level, not at a different level than some sports, so it’s quite fun,” says Jordan.

Vanessa Stephens says she’s proud to share the honour of representing her province with her brothers.

“A lot of people don’t realize that able-bodied can play. So every time I say I play wheelchair basketball, people say, ‘Why don’t you play stand up? You’re able-bodied,'” Vanessa said, “and I say, ‘Yeah, but wheelchair basketball is for able-bodied, as well — that’s the whole reason they have the classifications and the point system,’ so that’s it’s completely equal for everyone to be able to play.”